I had an odd one on Saturday. After a confusing passage of very broken play, with some back and forth...
- blue 11 ends up on a run with only red 15 to beat.
- red 15 makes the tackle, both players hit the floor
- blue 11 rolls the ball backwards along the ground towards his supporting players
- but first to arrive, just, to the loose ball is a red player (ie running toward his own try-line) who scoops the ball one handed backwards (ie - in reality forwards) to a team mate behind him (ie - in front of him) who catches it.
I think the scooper was disoriented more than anything, but I gave a PK to blue, figuring it was a deliberate knock forward or - -- or if it you charitably decided it was accidental knock forward - the second player is offside anyway when he caught it and ran..
I explained what I had given, obviously, as it was a bit odd, and players from both team bought the PK no problem.
but then when they took the PK I was thinking that if you count it as an accidental forward pass, then it's not a PK offence to catch one of those, so perhaps I should have given a scrum. They'd have bought that as well. hmm..
- blue 11 ends up on a run with only red 15 to beat.
- red 15 makes the tackle, both players hit the floor
- blue 11 rolls the ball backwards along the ground towards his supporting players
- but first to arrive, just, to the loose ball is a red player (ie running toward his own try-line) who scoops the ball one handed backwards (ie - in reality forwards) to a team mate behind him (ie - in front of him) who catches it.
I think the scooper was disoriented more than anything, but I gave a PK to blue, figuring it was a deliberate knock forward or - -- or if it you charitably decided it was accidental knock forward - the second player is offside anyway when he caught it and ran..
I explained what I had given, obviously, as it was a bit odd, and players from both team bought the PK no problem.
but then when they took the PK I was thinking that if you count it as an accidental forward pass, then it's not a PK offence to catch one of those, so perhaps I should have given a scrum. They'd have bought that as well. hmm..